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From: "Dawid Węgliński" <cla@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:03:58
Message-Id: 200902230003.24056.cla@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells) by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sunday 22 of February 2009 23:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Sunday 22 February 2009 17:30:09 Dawid Węgliński wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 22 of February 2009 00:27:10 Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > looks like bash-4.0 has broken semicolon escaping in subshells. this
5 > > > comes up when using find's -exec like we do in a few places in
6 > > > eclasses: ls=$(find "$1" -name '*.po' -exec basename {} .po \;); shift
7 > > > you can work around the issue in a couple of ways:
8 > > > - quote the semicolon:
9 > > > .... ';')
10 > > > - use backticks
11 > > > `find .... \;`
12 > > >
13 > > > i'll tweak the eclasses to use quoting for now
14 > >
15 > > FYI. Not only find's semicolons are affected. It also happens in case ;;
16 > > construction.
17 >
18 > embedded case statements in $(...) subshells have always been broken.
19 > bash-4.0 is supposed to fix that. if you have some code that is broken,
20 > please post it so i can push it upstream.
21 > -mike
22
23 It wasn't me who experienced that, but a user:
24
25 13:50 < diabel-> <<< dir /usr/share/doc/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3
26 13:50 < diabel-> /var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3/temp/environment:
27 line 2989: błąd składni przy nieoczekiwanym znaczniku `;;'
28 13:50 < diabel-> /var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3/temp/environment:
29 line 2989: ` ;;' * * ERROR: x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 failed.
30
31 All it states is syntax error near double semicolons.

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